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Roberto Ribeiro Baldino

philosophy of mathematics education

2019

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Number neuron , neuroscience , mind-body relation , biosocial research , more than human philosophy , conscience and language

Attempts to locate mathematics inside the human brain have fascinated certain educators. Which neuronal connections are responsible for the mathematical operations and abstractions? Once the gene that ensures the formation of such connections is located, many teaching problems may be viewed under a new light. Foundations of teaching methods and academic control of research on mathematics education may be justified. This paper shows why such a scientific discovery and the theory it supports are anxiously awaited and seized as definitive by many of their readers.